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Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...

Uglow’s rhythmic text traverses thousands of years as it tells the prehistoric tale of many fossils coming to exist in Los Angeles’s La Brea Tar Pits. At book’s opening, an unsuspecting Harland’s ...

A fox trapped in a pit of heating oil within a derelict building has been rescued by the RSPCA, after a member of the public spotted its eyes peering from the "tar-like substance". The animal welfare ...